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QUALITY‐ADJUSTED HUMAN CAPITAL AND PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH
Author(s) -
RABIUL ISLAM MD.,
ANG JAMES B.,
MADSEN JAKOB B.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
economic inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1465-7295
pISSN - 0095-2583
DOI - 10.1111/ecin.12052
Subject(s) - frontier , human capital , productivity , economics , educational attainment , quality (philosophy) , panel data , labour economics , capital (architecture) , demographic economics , econometrics , economic growth , geography , philosophy , epistemology , archaeology
This article examines the influence of quality‐adjusted educational attainment on growth and tests whether it facilitates the transfer of technology developed at the frontier for a panel of 60 countries. Using outcomes of pathogen stress as instruments, the results show that quality‐adjusted educational attainment and its interaction with distance to the frontier play important roles for growth. (JEL I20, O30, O40 )